WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:07.000 Thank you. Thank you, ladies. Thank you. Thank you, mister. Thank you. 00:07.000 --> 00:10.000 Hey, Jeff. Jeff Gardell. 00:10.000 --> 00:12.000 Yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's right. 00:12.000 --> 00:14.000 What's the matter? Don't you remember me? 00:14.000 --> 00:16.000 Polo. Jimmy Polo. 00:16.000 --> 00:18.000 Polo? 00:18.000 --> 00:23.000 Well, sure. We fought back in 49 at the arena. 00:23.000 --> 00:26.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 00:26.000 --> 00:30.000 You're in. Oh, yeah. I remember. 00:30.000 --> 00:32.000 Oh, I beat you that time, didn't I? 00:32.000 --> 00:34.000 Huh? No? 00:34.000 --> 00:37.000 You beat me? Huh? 00:37.000 --> 00:39.000 Yeah. 00:39.000 --> 00:42.000 What'd you say your name was? 00:42.000 --> 00:44.000 Polo. Jimmy. 00:44.000 --> 00:48.000 Oh, yeah. Yeah, what you doing these days, Jimmy, huh? 00:48.000 --> 00:52.000 Still in the ring. I fight Patty Packard tomorrow night. 00:52.000 --> 00:54.000 Patty Packard? 00:54.000 --> 00:57.000 Oh, he's a tough boy. That Patty Packard boy's a tough boy. 00:57.000 --> 01:00.000 He's got a lifting there. Oh, you got to watch him. 01:00.000 --> 01:02.000 You know, I'm training for a comeback myself. 01:02.000 --> 01:05.000 Hey, could use a couple of handkitches, huh? 01:05.000 --> 01:07.000 Sure. 01:07.000 --> 01:09.000 A long time. 01:09.000 --> 01:11.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, sure. 01:11.000 --> 01:13.000 When did you say we fought last? 01:13.000 --> 01:15.000 Six years ago. 01:15.000 --> 01:17.000 Yeah, six years ago. 01:17.000 --> 01:19.000 Sure, I remember that boy. 01:19.000 --> 01:22.000 You threw in a towel after five rounds, didn't you, huh? 01:22.000 --> 01:24.000 Yeah, boy, you threw it in. 01:24.000 --> 01:26.000 Oh, that's a lot. 01:26.000 --> 01:28.000 Good luck. 01:28.000 --> 01:30.000 Yeah, yeah. Come out clean, boy. 01:30.000 --> 01:32.000 Keep fighting. Stay out of them clinches. 01:32.000 --> 01:34.000 You do a good boy. I do that. 01:38.000 --> 01:40.000 Kid's okay. 01:40.000 --> 01:42.000 Told him to get his chin in, get his left up, right? 01:42.000 --> 01:44.000 Remember, tell him that. I do, I do. 01:44.000 --> 01:46.000 Oh, hi, Ellie. Hi, Willie. 01:46.000 --> 01:48.000 How's Jimmy? Great. Perfect condition. 01:48.000 --> 01:50.000 Perfect. Good luck tomorrow. 01:50.000 --> 01:52.000 Oh, thanks. Thanks, Ellie. 01:52.000 --> 01:54.000 How'd the workout go this afternoon, eh? 01:54.000 --> 01:56.000 Well, did you follow my instructions? 01:56.000 --> 01:58.000 Where is Jimmy? 01:58.000 --> 02:00.000 Did anything wrong? 02:00.000 --> 02:02.000 Well, you know the way he is. 02:02.000 --> 02:04.000 He's always clowning around. 02:04.000 --> 02:06.000 But today he's mad. 02:06.000 --> 02:08.000 Like a hungry tiger. Everything I say, everything I do, 02:08.000 --> 02:10.000 he's always jumping down my throat. 02:10.000 --> 02:12.000 Well, he shouldn't do that to me. I'm on his side. 02:12.000 --> 02:14.000 I'm a friend of his. Have you seen the afternoon papers? 02:14.000 --> 02:16.000 No. Something special? 02:16.000 --> 02:18.000 Yeah. 02:18.000 --> 02:20.000 Jimmy has been shooting off his face. 02:20.000 --> 02:22.000 And to Sam Carter of all guys. 02:22.000 --> 02:24.000 In an interview with the up-and-coming Jimmy Polo, 02:24.000 --> 02:26.000 he stated, 02:26.000 --> 02:28.000 I will knock Packard out in four, 02:28.000 --> 02:30.000 maybe five rounds. 02:30.000 --> 02:32.000 What are you trying to do, a proof you can read? 02:32.000 --> 02:34.000 I'll let you out of my sight for a couple of minutes, 02:34.000 --> 02:36.000 and this is what happens. 02:36.000 --> 02:38.000 With your record, 02:38.000 --> 02:40.000 only four KOs, this kind of talk, 02:40.000 --> 02:42.000 and they'll peg you with a smart Ellie. 02:42.000 --> 02:44.000 They'll tie a tin candy at your tail. 02:44.000 --> 02:46.000 Who cares? Let them. 02:46.000 --> 02:48.000 You can talk rough to me and Max. 02:48.000 --> 02:50.000 We understand. You can feel big. 02:50.000 --> 02:52.000 Then you're entitled to a couple of nerves. 02:52.000 --> 02:54.000 Just before an important fight. 02:54.000 --> 02:56.000 But to a reporter... 02:56.000 --> 02:58.000 Get off my back, will you? 02:58.000 --> 03:00.000 What's fighting you today? 03:00.000 --> 03:02.000 A reporter. Look, Jimmy, these... 03:02.000 --> 03:04.000 Look, Willie, let them alone. Let them go home, go to sleep. 03:04.000 --> 03:06.000 You're sleeping off. 03:06.000 --> 03:08.000 Tomorrow's the fight night. We gotta settle this thing here and now. 03:08.000 --> 03:10.000 And there's more. 03:10.000 --> 03:12.000 Polo reiterated his prediction. 03:12.000 --> 03:14.000 He said, 03:14.000 --> 03:16.000 in the past, I have always followed the instructions 03:16.000 --> 03:18.000 of Willie Stokes, my manager. 03:18.000 --> 03:20.000 Take it easy and go for the decision. 03:20.000 --> 03:22.000 But this time, I am going for the long ball. 03:24.000 --> 03:26.000 Did you say that to Sam Carter? 03:26.000 --> 03:28.000 Yeah, so what? 03:28.000 --> 03:30.000 Well, Pat is too tough on the in-fighting. 03:30.000 --> 03:32.000 You gotta stay away from him. 03:32.000 --> 03:34.000 You know, you can also be 03:34.000 --> 03:36.000 number one contender on a decision, too. 03:36.000 --> 03:38.000 But this time, it's gonna be fast, Willie. 03:38.000 --> 03:40.000 One false move, and he'll tear your head off. 03:40.000 --> 03:42.000 Will you shut up? 03:42.000 --> 03:44.000 Hey, hey, hey, you can't talk to me like that. 03:44.000 --> 03:46.000 Same to me. You're getting too big for your boxing clothes. 03:46.000 --> 03:48.000 And Willie, I told you, lay off of me. 03:48.000 --> 03:50.000 How did the workout go, boy? 03:50.000 --> 03:52.000 Okay. 03:52.000 --> 03:54.000 Not me. 03:54.000 --> 03:56.000 Just look at your record. 03:56.000 --> 03:58.000 Look at your record. 03:58.000 --> 04:00.000 28 pro fights, 24 wins. 04:00.000 --> 04:02.000 Four of them by KO. Only four. 04:02.000 --> 04:04.000 Now why? 04:04.000 --> 04:06.000 Because you're too good of a boxer to stand there 04:06.000 --> 04:08.000 and slug it out toe to toe. 04:08.000 --> 04:10.000 Huh? Some managers, hungry for a buck, 04:10.000 --> 04:12.000 they take a chance with their lad, 04:12.000 --> 04:14.000 rush him along and spoil him. 04:14.000 --> 04:16.000 But me, I play it safe. 04:16.000 --> 04:18.000 Safe for you, too, Jimmy. 04:18.000 --> 04:20.000 Sure, Jimmy, you fight back at the way you did 04:20.000 --> 04:22.000 Bryson Uris, since... 04:22.000 --> 04:24.000 Okay, okay, you're the boss. 04:24.000 --> 04:26.000 Only outside the ropes. 04:26.000 --> 04:28.000 Inside the ropes, you're the boss. 04:28.000 --> 04:30.000 Remember that. 04:30.000 --> 04:32.000 You see? 04:32.000 --> 04:34.000 Yeah. 04:34.000 --> 04:36.000 I don't know what's got into him. 04:36.000 --> 04:38.000 Like he was eating raw meat or something. 04:38.000 --> 04:40.000 Ah, here, cooler. 04:48.000 --> 04:50.000 Enough? 04:50.000 --> 04:52.000 Not quite. 04:52.000 --> 04:54.000 Gotta be very salty. 04:54.000 --> 04:56.000 Whoops. Hey, Jackie, not the whole box. 04:58.000 --> 05:00.000 Why does Daddy soak his hands? 05:00.000 --> 05:02.000 Oh, to make them hard. 05:02.000 --> 05:04.000 I'm gonna fight him, just like Daddy! 05:04.000 --> 05:06.000 Oh, you sweet little boy. 05:06.000 --> 05:08.000 Oh, you sweet... 05:08.000 --> 05:10.000 That's very funny. 05:10.000 --> 05:12.000 Oh, hi, Jimmy. I didn't hear you come in. 05:12.000 --> 05:14.000 Hi, Daddy, look at me! 05:14.000 --> 05:16.000 What's the big idea? 05:16.000 --> 05:18.000 Watch the harm. 05:18.000 --> 05:20.000 It's bad enough I should have to do it. 05:20.000 --> 05:22.000 And I don't want him reading that scrapbook anymore. 05:22.000 --> 05:24.000 What's the matter with you? 05:24.000 --> 05:26.000 Why can't he read comic books like other kids? 05:26.000 --> 05:28.000 Well, you started him on the book, not me. 05:28.000 --> 05:30.000 Isn't it time for him to be in bed? 05:30.000 --> 05:32.000 Come on, Jackie. 05:32.000 --> 05:34.000 Your father got out of bed 05:34.000 --> 05:36.000 and he's outside this morning. 05:36.000 --> 05:38.000 Come on. 05:58.000 --> 06:00.000 He says you promised to box him. 06:00.000 --> 06:02.000 Oh, yeah, I know. 06:02.000 --> 06:04.000 Whatever's eating you, 06:04.000 --> 06:06.000 please don't take it out on Jackie. 06:08.000 --> 06:10.000 I'm sorry. 06:10.000 --> 06:12.000 It's okay. 06:12.000 --> 06:14.000 Go on. You can take a fast dive. 06:18.000 --> 06:20.000 Hey, slicker! 06:20.000 --> 06:22.000 Come on in your corner, kid. 06:24.000 --> 06:26.000 Okay, you ready? Bye! 06:26.000 --> 06:28.000 Okay, from the shoulder, shoulder, shoulder, shoulder, shoulder. 06:28.000 --> 06:30.000 Come on. Straight in, straight in. 06:30.000 --> 06:32.000 One, two, three, four. 06:32.000 --> 06:34.000 Ooh! 06:34.000 --> 06:36.000 One! 06:36.000 --> 06:38.000 Two! 06:38.000 --> 06:40.000 Three! 06:40.000 --> 06:42.000 Four! 06:42.000 --> 06:44.000 Five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten! 06:44.000 --> 06:46.000 I win by a KO! 06:46.000 --> 06:48.000 Yay! 06:50.000 --> 06:52.000 Oh. 06:52.000 --> 06:58.000 Come on, fella. In a sec. 07:02.000 --> 07:04.000 Brush your teeth? 07:04.000 --> 07:06.000 Yep. 07:06.000 --> 07:08.000 Wash your face? 07:08.000 --> 07:10.000 Yep. 07:10.000 --> 07:12.000 Hey. 07:12.000 --> 07:14.000 I'm sorry I yelled at you, honest. 07:14.000 --> 07:16.000 Okay? 07:16.000 --> 07:18.000 That's okay, Daddy. 07:18.000 --> 07:20.000 Good night, sport. 07:20.000 --> 07:22.000 Good night, Daddy. 07:30.000 --> 07:32.000 Good night. 07:38.000 --> 07:40.000 Jackie tucked in? 07:40.000 --> 07:42.000 Yeah. 07:42.000 --> 07:44.000 Are you hungry? 07:44.000 --> 07:46.000 Some. 07:46.000 --> 07:48.000 Wait a minute. 07:48.000 --> 07:50.000 Oh, honey, Mr. McCormick, the real estate agent, called this afternoon. 07:50.000 --> 07:52.000 And he said we can have the house. 07:52.000 --> 07:54.000 Isn't that wonderful? 07:54.000 --> 07:56.000 I'll send him a check for the deposit tomorrow. 07:56.000 --> 07:58.000 No, you better wait. 07:58.000 --> 08:00.000 Oh, but Sunday you said that I could... 08:00.000 --> 08:02.000 Look, I changed my mind. I've got a right to change my mind. 08:02.000 --> 08:04.000 But it's a steal for the money. 08:04.000 --> 08:06.000 And such a beautiful place. 08:08.000 --> 08:10.000 I've been dying to get out of here for years. 08:10.000 --> 08:12.000 And Jackie could play outside and I wouldn't be worried half to death every second of the time. 08:12.000 --> 08:14.000 Look, I'm worried about the kid's future, too. 08:14.000 --> 08:16.000 But the answer for now is no. 08:16.000 --> 08:18.000 Jimmy, I don't understand why all of a sudden... 08:20.000 --> 08:22.000 Oh, boy. 08:26.000 --> 08:28.000 Hi, Jimmy. How's the boy? 08:28.000 --> 08:30.000 Tony. 08:30.000 --> 08:32.000 You're looking great. 08:32.000 --> 08:34.000 How's Gert? 08:34.000 --> 08:36.000 Oh, she's fine. Look, I just came over to show you this column about you. 08:36.000 --> 08:38.000 Oh, yeah, I saw that. 08:38.000 --> 08:40.000 Hi, Tony. 08:40.000 --> 08:42.000 Hi, Bess. Have you seen it? 08:42.000 --> 08:44.000 Yes. Boy, you really filled that guy off. 08:44.000 --> 08:46.000 Oh, yeah. 08:46.000 --> 08:48.000 Here. 08:48.000 --> 08:50.000 Ah, thanks. Well, here's to the next chance. 08:50.000 --> 08:52.000 Good luck. 08:56.000 --> 08:58.000 You know, Gert and I were discussing it. 08:58.000 --> 09:00.000 How much will your share of the gate come to? 09:02.000 --> 09:04.000 Oh, I don't know. Eight, ten grand. 09:04.000 --> 09:06.000 I guess it depends. 09:06.000 --> 09:08.000 Mama. For that kind of dough, I'd step into the ring 09:08.000 --> 09:10.000 and let Packard use me for a punching bag. 09:10.000 --> 09:12.000 Honest, I'd step in front of a train. 09:12.000 --> 09:14.000 Ten grand. 09:14.000 --> 09:18.000 Hey, uh, how about a little game of gin and rummy later, huh? 09:18.000 --> 09:20.000 Oh, no thanks. 09:20.000 --> 09:22.000 Oh, come on, champ. It'll relax you. 09:22.000 --> 09:24.000 We always play the night before a fight. 09:24.000 --> 09:26.000 Look, champ, I'll even let you win. 09:26.000 --> 09:28.000 Look, I said no. Lay off the champ stuff. 09:32.000 --> 09:34.000 Okay. 09:34.000 --> 09:36.000 So what's the matter with him? 09:36.000 --> 09:38.000 Oh. Um, yeah, well, uh... 09:38.000 --> 09:40.000 I-I gotta go. 09:40.000 --> 09:42.000 Um, night. 09:42.000 --> 09:44.000 Good night, Tony. 09:46.000 --> 09:48.000 Good luck tomorrow, Jimmy. 09:54.000 --> 09:56.000 What's the matter? What's gotten into you? 09:56.000 --> 09:58.000 Your best friend, treating him like that. 09:58.000 --> 10:00.000 Just-just lay off of me, will you? 10:00.000 --> 10:02.000 But what's wrong? Nothing. 10:04.000 --> 10:06.000 Why don't you want to talk about it, Jimmy? 10:06.000 --> 10:08.000 Hm? Talk about what? 10:08.000 --> 10:10.000 About what's bothering you. 10:10.000 --> 10:12.000 Well, sooner or later, you do tell me. 10:12.000 --> 10:14.000 Well, I tell you it's nothing. 10:14.000 --> 10:16.000 You're right, I... 10:16.000 --> 10:18.000 I just got out of the rock out of bed this morning. 10:18.000 --> 10:20.000 Darling, I know you're on edge before a fight, 10:20.000 --> 10:22.000 and who can blame you? 10:22.000 --> 10:24.000 But I've never seen you like this. 10:24.000 --> 10:26.000 Yeah, I know, I know, I know. I'm sorry. 10:28.000 --> 10:30.000 I'm just butterflies. 10:30.000 --> 10:32.000 Well, you've had them before. 10:32.000 --> 10:34.000 Oh, yeah, but not like this. 10:34.000 --> 10:36.000 Not like this. 10:36.000 --> 10:38.000 Darling, what is it? What? 10:38.000 --> 10:40.000 What? 10:42.000 --> 10:44.000 It's seven years. 10:44.000 --> 10:46.000 Dirt, sweat, noise, 10:46.000 --> 10:48.000 that stinking gymnasium. 10:48.000 --> 10:50.000 Same old grind of training. Punch the bag, 10:50.000 --> 10:52.000 skip the rope, push-ups, day in, day out, 10:52.000 --> 10:54.000 over, over again, grind! 10:56.000 --> 10:58.000 And then a big night, 10:58.000 --> 11:00.000 the slobs in the front row screaming for blood. 11:00.000 --> 11:02.000 Nobody knows what it's like 11:02.000 --> 11:04.000 to swallow your own blood. 11:04.000 --> 11:06.000 Every time I leave this house to go to a fight, 11:06.000 --> 11:08.000 I... 11:08.000 --> 11:10.000 I wonder whether I'm coming home again, 11:10.000 --> 11:12.000 whether I'm going to take a ride in an ambulance. 11:12.000 --> 11:14.000 I've seen you fight. 11:14.000 --> 11:16.000 Jimmy, you're good. 11:16.000 --> 11:18.000 You haven't been hurt so far, and you won't be. 11:18.000 --> 11:20.000 No? You see this? 11:20.000 --> 11:22.000 You can kill a man best, or cripple him for life 11:22.000 --> 11:24.000 on train to use this thing like a weapon. 11:26.000 --> 11:28.000 So's the other guy. 11:28.000 --> 11:30.000 One slip, a split second, long time, 11:30.000 --> 11:32.000 and bam, you've got scar tissue here. 11:32.000 --> 11:34.000 It's a chain reaction, can lead right to the undertaker. 11:36.000 --> 11:38.000 I sit on that stool, 11:38.000 --> 11:40.000 and I watch that poor guy sitting across from me. 11:42.000 --> 11:44.000 I know what's going on inside him. 11:44.000 --> 11:46.000 His heart's pounding just like me, 11:46.000 --> 11:48.000 but he covers up just like me. 11:48.000 --> 11:50.000 Trying to be brave. 11:50.000 --> 11:52.000 But we're not best, we're not... 11:52.000 --> 11:54.000 That bell clanged, you've got a couple of scared animals 11:54.000 --> 11:56.000 in there trying to clobber each other for what? 11:56.000 --> 11:58.000 For money? 11:58.000 --> 12:00.000 I've got a 19th turn flow I didn't know from beans, now! 12:00.000 --> 12:02.000 I look around, I see what it ends up to. 12:04.000 --> 12:06.000 Heros, glory, Eddie Silver, 12:06.000 --> 12:08.000 15 years in the ring. 12:08.000 --> 12:10.000 Bell boy. 12:10.000 --> 12:12.000 Georgie Mantel, 10 years in the ring. 12:12.000 --> 12:14.000 Bus boy. 12:14.000 --> 12:16.000 That's a big deal. 12:16.000 --> 12:18.000 Number one contender today, 12:18.000 --> 12:20.000 and number one bartender tomorrow. 12:20.000 --> 12:30.000 If you're lucky, if you're lucky! 12:30.000 --> 12:32.000 I'm through, Bess. 12:32.000 --> 12:34.000 I'm not fighting Packard. 12:34.000 --> 12:36.000 I'm not fighting anybody else. 12:36.000 --> 12:38.000 I'm quitting tonight! 12:46.000 --> 12:48.000 A gag. 12:48.000 --> 12:50.000 A gag? 12:50.000 --> 12:52.000 That's what I thought it was when your wife phoned. 12:52.000 --> 12:54.000 How? 12:54.000 --> 12:56.000 How could you do a thing like this to me? 12:56.000 --> 12:58.000 How? 12:58.000 --> 13:00.000 Willie, it doesn't concern you. 13:00.000 --> 13:02.000 It's a business, even the best partners split up. 13:02.000 --> 13:04.000 Well, give me a warning at least. 13:04.000 --> 13:06.000 After all I've done for you. 13:06.000 --> 13:08.000 Jimmy, when you were working in that shipping office, 13:08.000 --> 13:10.000 I said to you, 13:10.000 --> 13:12.000 Jimmy, if you want to get anywhere, 13:12.000 --> 13:14.000 you've got to fight full time. 13:14.000 --> 13:16.000 I paid all your training expenses. 13:16.000 --> 13:18.000 And when you were living with your in-laws, 13:18.000 --> 13:22.000 many a time it was me who slipped your double sober. 13:22.000 --> 13:24.000 You made it all back, 13:24.000 --> 13:26.000 and the last couple of years you stacked away plenty. 13:26.000 --> 13:28.000 Well, all right. 13:28.000 --> 13:30.000 Forget the past. Forget it. 13:30.000 --> 13:32.000 The future, Jim. 13:32.000 --> 13:34.000 Fort Knox is waiting for us. 13:34.000 --> 13:36.000 Oh, yeah, sure. 13:36.000 --> 13:38.000 Jimmy, the last minute, 13:38.000 --> 13:40.000 it's no way to treat us. 13:40.000 --> 13:42.000 Willie's right. 13:42.000 --> 13:44.000 He took you practically off the streets. 13:44.000 --> 13:46.000 Jimmy, yeah. 13:46.000 --> 13:48.000 I pick up a nervous, and I get a kick in the teeth. 13:48.000 --> 13:50.000 Look, it's past midnight. 13:50.000 --> 13:52.000 He'll be dead tomorrow if he don't get no sleep. 13:52.000 --> 13:54.000 Use your head, Jimmy. 13:54.000 --> 13:56.000 We got a contract with Ed Foyle. 13:56.000 --> 13:58.000 Even if I do what you want me to do, 13:58.000 --> 14:00.000 what am I going to tell him? 14:00.000 --> 14:02.000 Tell him I'm sick. 14:02.000 --> 14:04.000 Ah, you can't pull a phony on a commission, Doc. 14:04.000 --> 14:06.000 Look, tell him anything you want, I'm through. 14:06.000 --> 14:08.000 Jimmy, 14:08.000 --> 14:10.000 I've been through good and bad with you. 14:10.000 --> 14:12.000 Now, make me understand why it has to be tonight. 14:12.000 --> 14:14.000 Because I say so. 14:14.000 --> 14:16.000 We've waited so many years, 14:16.000 --> 14:18.000 and Willie thinks you've got a good chance to win the title. 14:18.000 --> 14:20.000 She's right. 14:20.000 --> 14:22.000 Absolutely 100% right. 14:22.000 --> 14:24.000 Do you think I want you hurt? 14:24.000 --> 14:26.000 Jimmy, 14:26.000 --> 14:28.000 when you started, 14:28.000 --> 14:30.000 I thought you were a good man. 14:30.000 --> 14:32.000 I thought you were a good man. 14:32.000 --> 14:34.000 I thought you were a good man. 14:34.000 --> 14:36.000 Jimmy, 14:36.000 --> 14:38.000 when you started fighting, 14:38.000 --> 14:40.000 we sat down and we mapped out our whole future together, 14:40.000 --> 14:42.000 and we knew someday you'd have to quit. 14:42.000 --> 14:44.000 But why now? 14:44.000 --> 14:46.000 If you come to me tomorrow night, 14:46.000 --> 14:48.000 and say, Beth, 14:48.000 --> 14:50.000 I'm all through, 14:50.000 --> 14:52.000 I'll understand. 14:52.000 --> 14:54.000 But I can't see why you have to walk out 14:54.000 --> 14:56.000 on every single person who's been decent to you. 14:56.000 --> 14:58.000 Okay, I'll tell you. 15:00.000 --> 15:02.000 Remember Jeff Gardell? 15:02.000 --> 15:04.000 Yeah, he was a good boy. 15:04.000 --> 15:06.000 Yeah, he was a sweet fighter. 15:06.000 --> 15:08.000 Yeah. 15:08.000 --> 15:10.000 Was. 15:10.000 --> 15:12.000 Well, I ran into him today. 15:12.000 --> 15:14.000 He didn't even recognize me. 15:14.000 --> 15:16.000 He was so punch drunk. 15:16.000 --> 15:18.000 And I helped do that. That's me. 15:18.000 --> 15:20.000 He was a contender when I was a kid. 15:20.000 --> 15:22.000 Too dumb to be afraid of him. 15:22.000 --> 15:24.000 Now selling handkerchiefs on a street corner. 15:26.000 --> 15:28.000 Stood there like a schmo. 15:28.000 --> 15:32.000 Felt like crying. 15:32.000 --> 15:36.000 I didn't know whether to buy two dozen, uh... 15:36.000 --> 15:38.000 Gave him some dough. 15:38.000 --> 15:40.000 But he must have made money. 15:40.000 --> 15:42.000 Sure, sure. He made money. 15:42.000 --> 15:44.000 So what happens to it? 15:44.000 --> 15:46.000 Ask Willie how many end up with any money. 15:46.000 --> 15:48.000 Managers third. 15:48.000 --> 15:50.000 Taxes, layoffs, injuries. 15:50.000 --> 15:52.000 Goes. It goes fast. 15:52.000 --> 15:54.000 Oh, I know a lot of fighters with nice fat annuities. 15:54.000 --> 15:58.000 Yeah, well, I know a lot of fighters with nothing. 16:00.000 --> 16:02.000 But Jeff Gardell. 16:02.000 --> 16:04.000 What a waste. 16:04.000 --> 16:06.000 I don't mind the guy selling handkerchiefs. 16:08.000 --> 16:12.000 If he only had part of his brain left. 16:12.000 --> 16:14.000 Might as well be dead. 16:14.000 --> 16:16.000 How terrible. 16:20.000 --> 16:22.000 Let's talk about you. 16:22.000 --> 16:24.000 Never mind Jeff Gardell. 16:24.000 --> 16:26.000 I know how it is, Jimmy. 16:26.000 --> 16:28.000 But why walk out on this fight? 16:28.000 --> 16:30.000 This minute? Now? 16:30.000 --> 16:32.000 Why? 16:32.000 --> 16:34.000 Oh, Willie, look. 16:34.000 --> 16:36.000 I tell you, I'm quitting the same time next year you ask the same question. 16:36.000 --> 16:40.000 Ah, I get it, Jimmy. 16:40.000 --> 16:42.000 You've turned yellow. 16:42.000 --> 16:44.000 Jimmy, don't. 16:44.000 --> 16:46.000 Oh, I had let him hit me. 16:46.000 --> 16:48.000 He won't fight Packard. Maybe he can whip me. 16:48.000 --> 16:50.000 Okay, it's the truth. 16:50.000 --> 16:52.000 I'm scared. 16:52.000 --> 16:54.000 Scared silly. 16:54.000 --> 16:56.000 Jimmy, boy, why didn't you say something? 16:56.000 --> 16:58.000 Piling up. 16:58.000 --> 17:00.000 Look, I played the clown. 17:00.000 --> 17:02.000 I joked around about having butterflies, but now... 17:08.000 --> 17:10.000 Well... 17:12.000 --> 17:14.000 There's nothing more to say tonight. 17:14.000 --> 17:18.000 Who's there? 17:18.000 --> 17:20.000 Nope. 17:36.000 --> 17:38.000 Hey, look, what are you making a fuss about? 17:38.000 --> 17:40.000 You get a good night's sleep, you'll feel different in the morning. 17:40.000 --> 17:42.000 I hope so. 17:42.000 --> 17:44.000 Go on, Max. 17:44.000 --> 17:46.000 Max! 17:56.000 --> 17:58.000 Good night. 17:58.000 --> 18:02.000 Jimmy's lucky to have you for a wife, Mrs. Polar. 18:02.000 --> 18:04.000 You're a wonderful young woman. 18:04.000 --> 18:12.000 Jimmy, you've got no call to cause her this kind of grief. 18:12.000 --> 18:14.000 Look, he just keyed up. 18:14.000 --> 18:16.000 That's all keyed up. Shows he's a real champ. 18:16.000 --> 18:18.000 I've never seen it to fail. 18:18.000 --> 18:22.000 They start eating regular, they become primadonnas. 18:22.000 --> 18:50.000 I have never seen it to fail. 18:50.000 --> 18:52.000 Jimmy, I've been all over. Not a trace. 18:52.000 --> 18:56.000 Don't push the panic button. It's only 9.05. 18:56.000 --> 19:02.000 If I had an ounce of guts, I'd go to Mr. Foyle and tell him that my fighter cocked out on me. 19:02.000 --> 19:04.000 If Jimmy doesn't show up, I'll kill him. 19:04.000 --> 19:06.000 Take it easy, Max. 19:06.000 --> 19:10.000 It's happened to me this way all my life. All my life, like a pattern. 19:10.000 --> 19:16.000 Every time I get hold of something good, it slips through my fingers like sand. 19:16.000 --> 19:20.000 Well, I'm a four-rounder. 19:20.000 --> 19:22.000 And a six. 19:22.000 --> 19:24.000 Dennis. 19:24.000 --> 19:28.000 Well, did you have any luck? Did you see him? 19:28.000 --> 19:30.000 Not a word from him all day. I'm worried sick, Willie. 19:30.000 --> 19:32.000 He left the house early this morning. 19:32.000 --> 19:34.000 Oh, I should go and tell Mr. Foyle. 19:34.000 --> 19:37.000 How can you tell a matchmaker a thing like that at 9.10? 19:37.000 --> 19:40.000 What I won't be any better knows at 9.55. 19:40.000 --> 19:43.000 If I've got a weak heart, tonight I'll know it. 19:43.000 --> 19:46.000 Max, you've got to swab them all out. 19:46.000 --> 19:49.000 Yeah, sure. Bring your boy in. We ain't ready yet. 19:49.000 --> 19:51.000 Okay, come on. 19:51.000 --> 19:53.000 Well, how'd he do? 19:53.000 --> 19:55.000 How? Look. 19:55.000 --> 19:57.000 Yeah, yeah, come on. 19:57.000 --> 19:59.000 Bing, bing, bing, and my boy's looking up at the lights. 19:59.000 --> 20:01.000 Counting the house while the referee counts over him. 20:01.000 --> 20:03.000 That's tough luck. Tough luck. 20:03.000 --> 20:05.000 Oh, he's a bum. 20:05.000 --> 20:07.000 He's leading to the last round. 20:07.000 --> 20:09.000 It's the fifth fight he does that. Conks out in the stretch. 20:09.000 --> 20:11.000 He gets cocky, see? Look, cocky like it. 20:11.000 --> 20:13.000 I'm a bum. I'm washed up. 20:13.000 --> 20:15.000 I'm through with you. 20:15.000 --> 20:17.000 I did what you told me to do. I took your rod. 20:17.000 --> 20:21.000 Orders? I asked you to pivot like a wooden ballet dancer? Me? 20:21.000 --> 20:23.000 Orders. 20:23.000 --> 20:26.000 Okay, you'll go back to being a short order cook. Orders. 20:26.000 --> 20:28.000 Alex, I... Oh! 20:28.000 --> 20:30.000 Shut up! I'm through with you. 20:30.000 --> 20:42.000 I'm through with you, and I can stay home and listen to my wife. 20:42.000 --> 20:44.000 Jimmy, where you been? 20:44.000 --> 20:46.000 That's nearly out of her mind with worry. 20:46.000 --> 20:50.000 Where is she? She's down at the arena. I'm babysitting. 20:50.000 --> 20:52.000 Hey, kiddo. Hey, come on. 20:52.000 --> 20:54.000 You're supposed to be in bed. 20:54.000 --> 20:56.000 Come on. 20:56.000 --> 21:00.000 You better go call your manager. 21:00.000 --> 21:02.000 What the devil's the matter with you anyway? 21:02.000 --> 21:05.000 What is this quitting at the last minute? A grandstand play? 21:05.000 --> 21:08.000 Oh, now, look. I had to explain it to Bess and Willie and Maxie. 21:08.000 --> 21:10.000 I don't want to have to explain it to you, Tony. 21:10.000 --> 21:13.000 I don't get it. I just don't get it. 21:13.000 --> 21:17.000 In your position, I consider myself the luckiest guy in the world. 21:17.000 --> 21:19.000 Why? 21:19.000 --> 21:21.000 Why? 21:21.000 --> 21:24.000 You're only 27. You've got a good chance to be champ. 21:24.000 --> 21:26.000 By the time you're 30, you can put away a bundle. 21:26.000 --> 21:29.000 You can send Jackie to a good school. You can build a house. 21:29.000 --> 21:31.000 You can open a business. 21:31.000 --> 21:34.000 Yeah. I wind up walking on my heels. 21:34.000 --> 21:37.000 Well, I'd take that chance the way you can fight. 21:37.000 --> 21:40.000 I'd take a chance to see my kid got a real good start. 21:40.000 --> 21:43.000 Yeah, but do I have to get my brains beaten out to do it? 21:43.000 --> 21:47.000 Look, Jimmy, you and me, we had a battle from the day we were born. 21:47.000 --> 21:50.000 Why? Because our fathers came from the old country with big families and worries. 21:50.000 --> 21:52.000 They couldn't even speak the language. 21:52.000 --> 21:54.000 Your old man swung a pick all he's like. 21:54.000 --> 21:56.000 Yeah, yeah, I know. 21:56.000 --> 21:59.000 But he wanted it better for you the way you want it better for Jackie. 21:59.000 --> 22:01.000 Oh, look, Jimmy, I can't mess in your business, 22:01.000 --> 22:03.000 but you got to get down to the arena tonight. 22:03.000 --> 22:06.000 Walking out on people isn't like you at all. You're not a quitter, Jimmy. 22:06.000 --> 22:09.000 Oh, come on. Open your eyes, will you? 22:09.000 --> 22:12.000 Remember when you lived with Bess's family? 22:12.000 --> 22:15.000 How you griped all the time because you wanted a place of your own? 22:15.000 --> 22:18.000 Well, now you got your own place, but you can have more. 22:18.000 --> 22:21.000 You can ensure Jackie's future. 22:21.000 --> 22:24.000 Daddy? 22:24.000 --> 22:28.000 Hey, kiddo. You're supposed to be in bed. 22:28.000 --> 22:31.000 Tony said I could watch television. 22:31.000 --> 22:34.000 Please? 22:34.000 --> 22:37.000 Come here, kiddo. 22:41.000 --> 22:44.000 Jackie, look. 22:47.000 --> 22:49.000 What time is it? 22:49.000 --> 22:51.000 920. 22:51.000 --> 22:54.000 Jimmy. Jimmy, I've been so worried about you. Are you all right? 22:54.000 --> 22:57.000 Yeah, I'm all right. 22:57.000 --> 22:59.000 But Tony said you went down to the arena. 22:59.000 --> 23:01.000 Oh, it was terrible. I didn't realize before which... 23:01.000 --> 23:03.000 Look, baby, don't say anything. 23:03.000 --> 23:06.000 All day I've been walking around. I've been tearing myself apart. 23:06.000 --> 23:09.000 I got to go through with it, Bess. I got a fight tonight. 23:09.000 --> 23:11.000 I'll get my car. I'll drive you down. 23:11.000 --> 23:15.000 Look, but I know where I stand with myself now. I'm not scared anymore. 23:15.000 --> 23:21.000 You see, I'm not going to trade my body and my brains for a pile of money. 23:21.000 --> 23:23.000 After tonight, I'm through. 23:23.000 --> 23:26.000 Hey, look, baby, I still got my hands and I still got this up here. 23:26.000 --> 23:29.000 That's all we need, okay? 23:34.000 --> 23:37.000 I love you, baby. 23:38.000 --> 23:40.000 Come on. Call Willie. Tell him I'm on my way. 23:40.000 --> 23:42.000 Okay. 23:42.000 --> 23:46.000 And don't worry. 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